Welcome to the Let’s Connect;Voice for Choice Project Portal

Amerigroup will launch a one year pilot project to help members with verbal communication difficulties.

Through the use of Mozzaz communication technology, members who are nonverbal or partial verbal will be trained to use the communication system to enhance personal communication.

The primary goal is for the member to:

Create understandable messages

Increase clarity of communication

Enhancement of expressive language

Overall ability to communicate successfully

About Amerigroup

Currently serving approximately 3.5 million members in 12 states nationwide, Amerigroup is dedicated to offering real solutions that improve health care access and quality for our members, while proactively working to reduce the overall cost of care to taxpayers. Together with our affiliated health plans, we serve more than 5.5 million beneficiaries of state-sponsored health plans in 19 states, making us the nation’s leading providers of health care solutions for public programs.

About Mozzaz

Mozzaz delivers solutions for individuals with a complex healthcare needs. Their solutions promote care collaboration, drive accountable outcomes and most importantly improve an individual's quality of life. Mozzaz empowers individuals to be active participants in their own long-term care allowing them to access care from anywhere and at anytime.

Mozzaz connects individuals to their care providers for an integrated and coordinated level of service. Our solution consists of specialized apps for individuals that integrate to the care provider’s case management system to deliver an effective treatment program that is timely, accessible and drives quality of care.

April 20, 2016

The Launch of the Let’s Connect;Voice for Choice Project will kick off shortly! Laura Canaday will send out detailed information to all Care Coordinators and Care Providers when we are ready to start.

In the meantime, if you have any questions do not hesitate to contact our Technical Support Specialist, Blake Roussel, at support@mozzaz.com. We will also continue with our support sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-10AM. To join the support session call 1(647) 497-9380 and use access code 272-655-469. For screen sharing during the session use this link.

We look forward to working with you to make a difference in your Members’ lives!

December 23, 2015

December 20, 2015

Join us Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-10AM for our regular remote sessions, where you can drop in to ask questions and get impromptu tutorials. To join the session call 1(647) 497-9380 and use access code 272-655-469. For screen sharing during the session use this link.

Mozzaz has developed a series of tutorials for the Mozzaz Care App and Mozzaz Portal in written and video format. The tutorials cover the navigation and setup of the Mozzaz Care App, page management, managing care teams, reporting on user activity, and editing tiles, observations and events.

Completing a thorough safety sweep of the home is an important part of keeping an at-risk person safe. You are looking for anything that may be used as a weapon to cause self-harm. These items should be removed from the home or locked away so that the person at risk cannot access them. It should be noted that this is not an all inclusive list of items but a detailed listing to provide guidance in addressing safety concerns in your home. For an online tutorial about means restriction please visit: www.hennepin.us/saferhome

This project was initiated by Centerstone of Tennessee, and funded through a grant by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. Centerstone of Tennessee, through partnership with the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (TDMHSAS), Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network (TSPN) and Centerstone Research Institute (CRI), seeks to provide training, support and services that promote a reduction in suicidal ideation and attempts in Tennessee. Through this collaboration, it is the goal to drive suicides to zero.

We are excited to offer you this application, an innovative smartphone program to provide you ongoing support and resources, help us stay connected and provide you with support when it matters most.

This program regularly checks in with you to see how you’re feeling, tracks sleep and other daily activities so that we know how best to assist you.

Centerstone is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit providers of community-based behavioral healthcare, offering a full range of mental health services, substance abuse treatment and intellectual and developmental disabilities services in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Last year, we served 84,000 individuals and families. We seek to prevent and cure mental illness and addiction. www.centerstone.org

The Centerstone Research Institute (CRI) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare through technological advancement to integrate research and technology with clinical practice. www.centerstoneresearch.org

The Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network (TSPN) is the statewide public-private organization responsible for implementing the Tennessee Strategy for Suicide Prevention as defined by the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. TSPN is a grass-roots association which includes counselors, mental health professionals, physicians, clergy, journalists, social workers, and law enforcement personnel, as well as survivors of suicide and suicide attempts. TSPN works across the state to eliminate the stigma of suicide and educate communities about the warning signs of suicide, with the ultimate intention of reducing suicide rates in the state of Tennessee. www.tspn.org

The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is the State’s public mental health and substance abuse authority. Our responsibilities include assisting individuals to secure treatment and recovery services for serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbances, and substance abuse addiction. We also provide system planning; monitor, license, evaluate, and set policy and quality standards; collaborate with other state and community agencies; and work to educate the community about mental health and substance abuse services. http://www.tn.gov/behavioral-health

Funding for this application was made possible by grant number 1H79SM062098-01 from SAMHSA. The design, use or promotion of this product do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of CMHS, SAMHSA, or HHS; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U. S. Government.

Lifetiles is an app that helps patients manage their self-care, therapy and daily support needs as a part of their personal treatment plans. Through this app healthcare providers can deliver personalized interventions and self-help content based on a patient's care plan, keeping them active and engaged in treatment. Real-time messaging and data collection helps care providers monitor patient activity for progress tracking, care plan compliance and safety. This keeps patients constantly connected to their care teams, allowing for continuous care and support.

Benefits for Care Recipients:

Personalized interventions and support content tailored to a patient's needs.

Lifetiles is part of the Mozzaz solution to help individuals with complex care needs, including people with intellectual disabilities, developmental advisability, behavioral and mental health disorders, long-term care needs and home-care support.

Coordinated, Effective Care

Cost Reduction

By connecting the circle of care and empowering the individual and their caregivers, the quality of care delivered is improved because time taken to assess, adjust, and refine the personalized care plan is significantly reduced.

Peace of mind

TalkingTiles provides transparency of the delivered treatment plan and its effectiveness. Personal information and records are secure in the Cloud and can be accessed at anytime, anywhere, by anyone with permission to that individual’s Portal.

TalkingTiles Provides the Following Features

Users of TalkingTiles benefit from an improved quality of care through the ability to personalize care and treatment plans. Each individual and their family remotely collaborate with clinicians and care providers on their own device - knowing that all patient information is kept private and secure.

How TalkingTiles is Helping

An individual is able to effectively communicate his/her wants, needs, and emotions through the augmentative and assistive (AAC) capabilities of TalkingTiles on their device. Parents/Caregivers are able to program their loved one’s pages from ready-made content available through the Mozzaz Portal.

A boy can select a boy’s voice while a girl can select a girl’s voice or vice-versa for better response and a more appropriate experience.

Parents/Caregivers can grant access to the data being tracked to the individual’s many care providers: a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), a Cognitive Behavior Therapist (CBT), or a Special-Ed Teacher, all whom support several children at any given time effortlessly using Mozzaz Care to monitor, adjust, and refine each individual’s care plan.

TalkingTiles has voice banking which allows an individual to record their own voice as well as their caregiver’s voice. For example, an individual with ALS can record themselves and store the audio clips for use after they lose the ability to speak.

Mozzaz Gives Back!

Working together with the Dell Healthcare team and Give Forward, Mozzaz provided LEEP Forward, a centre for children with autism in Chicago, Illinois, 12 Dell tablets set up with TalkingTiles accounts. Watch as the children's first experience with TalkingTiles.